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Panda Bear Announces 2019 U.S. Tour Dates and Shares New Album Trailer

Buoys Due Out February 8, 2019 via Domino

Nov 12, 2018By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) is releasing a new album, Buoys, on February 8, 2019 via Domino. It was announced last week. Previously he shared its first single, "Dolphin" (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now Panda Bear has announced some U.S. tour dates for 2019 and shared a trailer for Buoys that features snippets of more songs from the album. Check out the tour dates and trailer below.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 16, at 10 a.m. local time, apart from the Washington D.C. date that goes on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. local time. Danny Perez directed the album trailer.

The album is the follow-up to 2015's Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaperand 2018'sA Day With the Homies EP, released on vinyl back in January. Buoys was recorded in Lennox's adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal. Rusty Santos co-produced and co-mixed the album with Lennox and two last worked together on Panda Bear's acclaimed 2007 album Person Pitch. The album also features Chilean DJ/vocalist Lizz and Portuguese musician Dino D'Santiago. Danny Perez created the album's artwork, with photography by Fernanda Pereira and additional design by Rob Carmichael of SEEN. Hugo Oliveira did the painting of Lennox that is acting as his press photo and it was then photographed by Fernanda Pereira.

Lennox had this to say about Buoys in a previous press release: "The last three records felt like a chapter to me, and this feels like the beginning of something new."